Last November, I announced my intention to create a portfolio of 10 companies that investors had effectively thrown away and given up on, in the hope......
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April 26 - News - Comments
Change at Office Depot Inc (NYSE:ODP) can’t come fast enough for activist investor Starboard Value, which owns almost 15% of the office-supplies......
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April 24 - Hedge Funds - Comments
There aren’t many people who will suggest that Kohl’s Corporation (NYSE:KSS) is a subversive threat to our existence as we know it. Lucky......
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April 21 - News - Comments
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) recently learned that Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) will launch same day delivery service, starting its pilot program in the......
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April 16 - News - Comments
Turning around a bad retail situation is a difficult task. The odds are very much against a broken store operator regaining its former glory, and a single......
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April 2 - News - Comments
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE:WMT) sold $466 billion worth of merchandise in its most recent fiscal year. By comparison, only 26 countries produce a GDP......
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April 1 - News - Comments
As an overall sector, retail is intensely competitive. In recent years, margins decreased for even the largest behemoths, such as Wal-Mart Stores, Inc......
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March 26 - News - Comments
The rally since the stock market bottomed out four years ago has been nothing short of ferocious and phenomenal. There are quite a few companies that......
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March 25 - News - Comments
E-commerce. It launched Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) and killed Borders. But are there limits to what it can do for a company? For today’......
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March 25 - News - Comments
The office product industry has been hit by a weakening economy and low customer purchases. Furthermore, competition has increased as bigger retailers......
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March 20 - News - Comments
For a long time the office supply industry had three main players: Staples, Inc. (NASDAQ:SPLS), Office Depot Inc (NYSE:ODP), and OfficeMax Inc (NYSE......
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March 19 - News - Comments
This series, brought to you by Yahoo! Finance, looks at which upgrades and downgrades make sense, and which ones investors should act on. Today, our headlines......
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March 18 - News - Comments
In late February, U.S. office-supply rivals OfficeMax (NYSE:OMX) and Office Depot Inc (NYSE:ODP) made the exciting but largely expected announcement......
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March 18 - News - Comments
Throughout this week, we at Valuentum have encountered a slew of positive data points that support our long thesis for Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL), one......
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March 18 - News - Comments
Recently, OfficeMax Inc (NYSE:OMX) and Office Depot Inc (NYSE:ODP) announced a $1 billion merger in an effort to consolidate businesses in a struggling......
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March 15 - News - Comments
It wasn’t the kind of pop that optimists had hoped for, but better-than-expected U.S. retail sales figures proved enough to get the market back......
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March 13 - News - Comments
Yesterday was quarterly earnings time again for office supply superstore Staples, Inc. (NASDAQ:SPLS), which often means only one thing for shareholders......
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March 11 - News - Comments
Staples, Inc. (NASDAQ:SPLS) In November 2012, I announced my intention to create a portfolio of 10 companies that investors had effectively thrown away......
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March 8 - News - Comments
